Joe Louis shares connection with two former Redskins through rural Alabama town
Louis built his championship boxing career in Detroit, where they have honored him with a monument known as "The Fist" -- a 24-foot-long sculpture with a fisted hand suspended by a 24-foot-high pyramid framework. He died in 1981 at the age of 66, and he is buried at Arlington National Cemetery. But it all began in the hills of rural Alabama.
Source: washingtontimes.com